[DCBryan1]

Looks like Paris Glendining is using the sniper as a tool to get what he wants...a total firearm ban in MD.

HEY PARIS! DO YOU THINK THAT BY PASSING THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER (READ LAW BY PEN) THAT THE SNIPER WILL CEASE ALL SNIPING?!

Idiot politicians. None of them have been shot (yet).

[Uncle Meat]

The Mayor can't have piss-offed law abiding gun owners giving the scumbag sniper a taste of his own medicine now.[sarcasm]

[dalebert]

But they won't hand over their files to FBI until they get paid. FOX stated that Maryland won't share info until reimbursed by the feds.

[ApesForEvolution]

Here we go....

[unixfox]

Gosh, I wonder how many CRIMINALS will comply.

[timestax]

That Glendining must have fell out of a tree and hit his head...geeesh what a retard!!

[BenR2]

MD Governor stops sniper attack! (Bans all firearm discharges in 4 counties by executive order)

Damn! What a Freaking genius your governor is!

[Republican Wildcat]

Oh, this'll really work. Good grief!

[freebilly]

Well I'll be Fun Stucked!!!! Gee, let's get him to issue a decree banning suicide bombers in the Mideast and we'll have peace in the next 24 hours....

[OfByForThePeople]

This is the studpidest move I have heard yet. It will only keep honest citizens from using their guns, and it is making the honest citizens mad as hell. The sniper must be laughing at the governor even more than he is laughing at the police.

What an idiot.

Cindye

[logician2u]

Actually, this move by Gov. "Smarty Growth" Glendening is less extreme than one would expect from this through-and-through statist.

Considering his professed hatred for automobiles and big-box stores, I'm a little surprised he didn't issue an order to close all self-service gas stations and Home Depots in the four-county area -- for our own good, of course.

[185JHP]

Poor Maryland - so close to Virginia, and yet so far from God!

[MissAmericanPie]

Problem solved, way to go Paris, no snipers allowed. Intelligence just oooozes out of his ears, dudn't? In fact I think all his intelligence has ooozed out and dried on his collar.

[FourteenthProfile]

Maybe some of the criminals in England and Australia can come to Maryland for some fresh prey now that it is a crime to fire a weapon in parts of that state.

[Senator_Blutarski]

Yep. That should do it.

Remove the right of citizens to defend themselves.

Remove the rights of hunters.

Overrule the 2nd Amendment.

Now those nasty terrorists will have to use knives and bombs. That will teach them a thing or two.

Actually, this is wonderful news. It will graphically point out the stupidity of the gun grabbers.

I suppose his point was that the sound of gun shots will cause over-reaction and panic. He probably also should have banned back-firing trucks, nail guns and "action/adventure" movies.

[YummiBox]

I think I read somewhere that the military might be getting involved and using surveillance equipment that detects muzzle bursts... I think if this were the case it would make sense to ban discharge so that if the sniper fired it would be easy to distinguish from the noise.